http://www. or http://sitename

[DOS]

From what I've learned, there is a different PR for http://www.sitename and http://sitename

Is one better than the other, or should you just pick one and stick to it when making backlinks?

[Pinyo]

stick with www.sitename.com and optimize for that. A lot of people are used to adding www. so if you optimize for the other version you will have mixed result (like I did). Also some how redirect non-www version to www version as my new host is doing now.

Play save and type in that 4 extra characters.

[samer]

hm .. can't you redirect the http://sitename to http://www.sitename using .htacces ? ..

[MarketingLady]

Dos, try to keep your listed URLs "consistent"; like Pinyo already mentionned, it isn't good to have mixed results from both indexed hosts, http://www.YourDomain.com and http://YourDomain.com !

Insert following file in your .htaccess and you will get rid of possible upcoming problems.


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.YourDomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.YourDomain.com$1 [R=301,L]